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West Coast Cruisers’ Rally the Baja Ha-Ha 24 Was Sealed With a Kiss
Hard to believe that the West Coast cruising classic, the Baja Ha-Ha, is 24 years old, that’s old enough to know better. But, the good times in California ...
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Irmageddon Update: Volunteer Boatlifts Help Storm-Battered Dominica
This report on aid to Dominica by Joan Conover first appeared in Caribbean Compass, the excellent monthly magazine for the Windward and Leeward Isles of the Caribbean. Joan, ...
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Third Try at Solo Circumnavigation at Age 80
Sailing alone around the world has had a deep attraction for some sailors ever since Joshua Slocum circumnavigated alone aboard Spray in the late 1890s. It is no ...
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Diving Bonaire and Curacao
For cruisers who like to scuba dive, the Dutch islands in the southern Caribbean offer some of the world’s best and least crowded dive sites (published August 2017) ...
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More Than 40 Million Kidde Fire Extinguishers Recalled
ANNAPOLIS, Md., November 6, 2017 – More than 40 million Kidde fire extinguishers equipped with plastic handles, some on the market for more than 40 years, have been ...
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Evacuated Clipper Race Yacht Sinks Near Cape Town
Following careful analysis of the situation and state of the Clipper Race Yacht CV24 the Clipper Race office has confirmed that the vessel is partially underwater after running ...
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Discovering The White Continent: Antarctica
It was not really in the schedule to visit the Antarctic we were just planning to see Patagonia, a major milestone in itself and then continue around South ...
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How I Survived Being Left to Drown in the Ocean. Read Story, Watch Rescue Video
It was during Brett Archibald’s 20th hour missing at sea that the bone-tired swimmer was attacked by jellyfish — a shoal of Portuguese men-of-war who cut up his ...
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BoatUS Estimates Boat Damage from Harvey and Irma at $655 Million
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma damaged more than 63,000 recreational boats for a combined dollar damage estimate of $655 million, BoatUS said today. The numbers are strikingly close to 2012’s ...
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Round-the-World, Non-Stop, Solo Record
Ronnie Simpson breaks down an amazing feat taking place in the Atlantic as we speak… They say round-the-world record attempts are often won and lost in the ...
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